A Tennessee lawman is on the wrong side of the justice system after he was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault for allegedly threatening his wife and the mechanic with whom he believed she had been having an affair. According to WSMV, Lt. Derrick Gleaves of the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office is accused of following …
Three members of a New York family were arrested in connection with a string of robberies police say could have been motivated by their common dependence on narcotics. According to Newsday, 55-year-old Deborah Salvatore and her two children, Lauren Mascia, 31, and Rick Mascia, 25, were in police custody Sunday after their arraignment. Police believe …
An elderly Virginia woman is recovering and her suspected attacker is facing attempted murder charges following an investigation into a residential fire Friday morning. According to WAVY, police responded to the Highland Springs home just before 6 a.m. and found the victim, identified by neighbors as a 78-year-old woman, inside. When a rescue crew transported …
After experts determined a bone found in Aruba did not belong to missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, the sister of another woman who went missing on the island is trying to determine if it might be a lead in that case. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Holloway’s father and a private investigator reported their ongoing investigation …
A Florida murder suspect is claiming an unusual defense, telling authorities his “best friend” asked to be strangled to death in a motel room Wednesday night. According to the Daily News, 26-year-old Rex Drew Stewart was arrested after police found the body of Gerald Richard Breen Jr., 36, at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in …
Police have arrested a suspect in a triple homicide that left a mother and her two young daughters dead in their Arkansas home Wednesday night. Forrest City authorities say Cordale Stacy, 30, identified by the victims’ family as the deceased mother’s boyfriend, surrendered Thursday morning but was not immediately charged with a crime. According to …
Police are looking for an Indiana man they say fatally shot another man as both were at a memorial service for a homicide victim. The Indianapolis Star reported that police have identified 43-year-old Jeffery R. Buckley as a suspect in the September 30 shooting that left Kirk Shurill dead. At the time of the shooting, …
South Dakota authorities are pursuing charges against a man suspected of killing his wife at her home this week. According to KDLT, police say they found 36-year-old Marie Brinker dead at her home in Mitchell Thursday evening after her 39-year-old husband, James, convinced one of the couple’s children to call 911 to report her death. …
An Indiana pastor faces a laundry list of felony charges after police say they have identified multiple child molestation victims over a month-long investigation. According to the Indianapolis Star, 72-year-old Garry Evans, who had been the pastor of Rushville Baptist Temple for three decades, became the subject of an investigation in early September after a …
Prosecutors this week reached a plea agreement with a California man charged with kicking and stomping a dog to death as several of his family members watched. Gerald James Santema, 38, pleaded no contest Tuesday to the felony animal cruelty charge in a deal expected to put him behind bars for two years. A sentencing …
A Delaware man is facing murder charges after police say they followed a trail of his blood from the crime scene to his apartment building. According to the Wilmington News Journal, officers noticed the blood trail outside of the portable toilet in which they found 31-year-old Rashawna Weathers stabbed to death on October 1. Wilmington …
A Louisiana man allegedly confessed to the brutal murder of his toddler Tuesday morning, telling police that “God made him do it.” According to New Orleans Police Supt. Michael Harrison, police received a call from the suspect, identified as 45-year-old Mark Hambrick, from his Bywater residence in which he admitted to stabbing and suffocating his …
